Still here! Promise.
It seems like the more I try to have time for things like the DIS, the less I have for it. Grr
So here is that promised snippit of my end of the magical pixie dust!. I still can't believe it happened!
I was sitting in my chair at home with the fam the day before travel day, not discussing anything and containing my excitement so I didn't irritate the "angry at me" family. Then it happened. It went something like this:
Phone rings:
Looking and seeing it was Liesa.
Hmmm, wonder what is up, so answered "Hey Liesa, what's up, everything ok?"
Liesa says "Um, I just had a weird thing happen".
Me: "Ok, is everything ok?" (thinking the worst of course)
Liesa: "Are you sitting down?"
Me: (thinking oh no, what happened) "Yup, what's up?"
Liesa: Goes into story about not answering her phone and calling back cause it seemed weird she was getting a call from Orlando area code then say's "WE GOT UPGRADED!"
Me: "Ok, that's cool, what kinda upgrade?" (me thinking a regular room to maybe a suite of some sort.)
Liesa: "THE GRAND!"
Me: "Yeah, right, you're funny! Now what really?"
Liesa: "No, REALLY".
Me: "Umm...are you being serious? "
Liesa: "Yup, what do you think about that?"
Me: " I think it's not very nice of you to be playing with me"
Liesa: "I'm serious! We got upgraded to THE GRAND! and I wanted to make sure you didn't use your luggage tags so your luggage didn't get lost"
Me: "Are you sure this is real? This isn't you pulling a joke on me?"
Liesa: "Nope, it's real, can you believe it?"
Me: "Uh, no, actually, and I won't until I am actually in a room there."
I truly didn't believe it until I arrived at Magical Express and they scanned my band and said "Oh, I see your checking into the GRAND. Please proceed to line 1. Your bus will be here shortly"
That's when it really hit home that I was going to be staying at the one resort on Disney property that I never in my lifetime imagined I would.